You are an animal too, no tail, and a much larger brain, less body hair (as of 3 million years ago, from your ancestors living in the water, semi-aquatic or aquatic. Aquatic mammals such as dolphins, whales, and humans all have a recessed larynx/voice-box making speech capable) you and Bonobos descended from Gorillas, Bonobo DNA is genetically 98.7% the same as ours. Some Bonobos went swimming, around 5 million years ago, and after millions of years, returned to land, with less body hair, larger heads, and the ability to speak. "Bonobo" offspring: the "Common Chimpanzee" a new species, are considerably different, new by only one million years, Gods improvement on us all. PROOF humans are "Aquatic Bonbobos"
http://www.archure.net/eu/ with wikipedia quotes and links

Animals do have rights, they have the right to not be harmed according to Tom Regan, professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State University, and he also says "those who support current animal agriculture by purchasing meat have a moral obligation to stop doing so" and that "the individual has a duty to lead a vegetarian way of life".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Regan#Animal_rights

Gary L. Francione, professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law-Newark says there is "no moral justification for using nonhumans for our purposes".

Darwin quote: "There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery."-Charles Darwin.

YOU are an animal, in fact your a GREAT APE, Humans and Bonobos are more closely related to each other, than to a Common Chimpanzee, Gorilla, or Orangutan. All Great Apes (and proud of it), or even further to Siamang Gibbons.

MY STORY: I met vegans when I was a kid and was impressed by them. My non-vegetarian grandfather worked at Paramount Pictures and said that the very top people in the biz were vegans. I hoped to be a vegan someday but my family did not want to go to Chinatown to get soy milk which was not in regular stores back then, and at one point my family was under court order to feed me veal. My mom frequented Cantors Deli in Hollywood, and forced me to eat tongue, while she ate brain with scrambled eggs (I never did like eggs, they forced me to eat meat, but I would not eat eggs).
I became a vegetarian at age 15, thanks to neighbor friends, Jeanie Doe dancer/violinist, and Marcus McCallen musician, who convinced my grandparents it was safe; but for family reasons that even vegans understood (everyone except me), I reluctantly gave up vegetarianism for around 13 years, with the intent of going back to it someday, and did.
I am back on a strict Vegetarian Diet since Aug 1992 except one last meal of meat January 1993 (when a family member gave it up entirely), and on an even stricter Vegan diet since December 22 1998

Vegetarian Quotations http://www.archure.net/salus/vegquotes.htmlMake Meat Illegal Worldwide (non-retroactive)
Restaurants can serve rice, beans, pasta, veggies, fruit. www.pcrm.org "Power Plate". Former butchers can be placed in other jobs, Cowboys will still be needed for spaying and neutering animals, probably best to be certified.

We have plenty of food, the animals are all stuffed, Animals eat 5 times as much food as we do, we can feed them less, spay an neuter them, allow them to live out their natural lives, and use the surplus to help starving people, here and around the globe (thru the United Nation) which we already do, but could do more, even more surplus to help more people, and that's the kind of American Reputation we want, the Good Guys (because there are still people starving around the World, and still people hungry here in the USA).

It took some geniuses many years of research to determine that vegetarianism is a healthier option; and now with the manufacture of B vitamins its a happy option. Lack of B vitamins causes depression (naturally found in liver or seaweed). Now with more research, The China Study, and www.pcrm.org
"Power Plate", we find even more evidence in favor of veganism. I am convinced that our aquatic ancestors ate nutritious seaweed, not fish (sharks tend to attack fish eaters more than vegans is what I heard tell around the beach. I also heard that sharks have a good sense of smell, are scavengers and if they smell dead carcass they go after it). Don't eat shark before going swimming. Don't bring a chicken sandwich on that hike around Las Vegas which is near the Grand Canyon (50 miles away) home to many Condors
with 11 feet wingspans (14 feet and larger has been reported). Put aside the bad habit of Meat. The human digestive system is that of a vegetarian, our ancestors did not eat meat, its not natural for us, its not healthy, and we end up raising way more domesticated animals and having to feed them 5 times more than we feed ourselves. Lets us learn from the professors and research and geniuses, and simply make Meat Illegal for all of society.

The China Study examines the relationship between the consumption of animal products (including dairy) and chronic illnesses such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and bowel cancer.[3] The authors conclude that people who eat a whole-food, plant-based vegan dietóavoiding all animal products, including beef, pork, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese, and milk, and reducing their intake of processed foods and refined carbohydratesówill escape, reduce, or reverse the development of numerous diseases. They write that "eating foods that contain any cholesterol above 0 mg is unhealthy".[4]

The book recommends sunshine exposure or dietary supplements to maintain adequate levels of vitamin D, and supplements of vitamin B12 in case of complete avoidance of animal products.[5] It criticizes low-carb diets, such as the Atkins diet, which include restrictions on the percentage of calories derived from carbohydrates[6] The authors are critical of reductionist approaches to the study of nutrition, whereby certain nutrients are blamed for disease, as opposed to studying patterns of nutrition and the interactions between nutrients.[7]

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selected quotes from
REALITIES 1989 by John Robbins (1989 data but proportionally relevant today)http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~an4m/recipes/antimeat.html
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Human population of United States: 243,000,000
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Number of human beings who could be fed by the grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock:
1,300,000,000
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How frequently a child dies of starvation: Every 2 seconds
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Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on 1 acre of land: 20,000
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Pounds of beef that can be produced on 1 acre of land: 165
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Pounds of protein fed to chickens to produce 1 pound of protein as chicken flesh: 5 pounds
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Pounds of protein fed to hogs to produce 1 pound of protein as hog flesh: 7.5 pounds
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Number of children who starve to death every day: 40,000
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Number of pure vegetarians who can be fed on the amount of land needed to feed 1 person consuming
meat-based diet: 20
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Number of people who will starve to death this year: 60,000,000
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Number of people who could be adequately fed by the grain saved if Americans reduced their intake of
meat by 10%: 60,000,000
(1989 data but proportionally relevant today)
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WAY MORE DATA http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~an4m/recipes/antimeat.html
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN "When about 16 Years of Age, I happen'd to meet with a Book written by one Tryon,
recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an
inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity...." -Ben Franklin- Chapter 1 "The
Autobiography" E302.6F7A2 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_Benjamin_Franklin/Section_Nine

Article 11. (2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission
which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it
was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time
the penal offence was committed.

"The most beautiful experience we can have is The MYSTERIOUS; it is the fundamental emotion which
stands at the cradle of true Art and true Science" -Albert Einstein

"There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it
got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap" -Albert Einstein

"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here"
-Ehrmann

"To know what is right and not to do it, is the worst cowardice" -Confucius

"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell" -Confucius

"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world, and the world at large
-Confucius

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others" -Confucius

INTRODUCTION:
Anthropologists and Human Evolutionists say the average IQ has actually gone down in the past 20,000
years. The real REASON MANKIND HAS ADVANCED SO RAPIDLY with Science and Technology, is greater
POPULATION, and greater POPULATION DENSITY, leading to greater COMMUNICATIONS and access to
verified, scientific, information. Thus, now with the INTERNET, we are bound for even greater
INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS soon, leading to Greater and Quicker ADVANCES IN MANKIND; in just a few
years, in just a few seconds, its already happening at www.ARCHURE.net

Technologically we have gone to the Moon, but Socially we are crawling out of the Primeval
Swamp.